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Compañía Trasatlántica Española (Shipping Company, Spain)

image by Ivan Sache, 04 Apr 2008

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Trasatlantica, Barcelona – blue flag, white disk. (Brown 1951 has it as "Cia Trasatlantica").

Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]

Jarig Bakker, 22 Dec 2004

According to the 4th edition of Brown's Flags and Funnels, 1940, the exact same combination occurs as "Worms & Cie., Havre; Funnel: Black; Flag: Blue with a White disk in the center" (I assume L'Havre, France).

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 Oct 2003

The house flag of Compañía Trasatlántica Española is blue with a white disc in the middle.

Source: Neptumar webpage on the Lloyd Belgium website

Ivan Sache, 15 Jul 2005

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) [llo12] shows the house flag of "Compañía Trasatlántica" (#176, p. 45), a company based in Barcelona, as blue with a white disk in the middle. According to a poster advertising the company and showing the house flag, the full name of the company is "Compañía Trasatlántica Española."

The company still exists, with the same house flag. Founded in 1850 in Cuba by Antonio López, the company was granted in 1861 the passenger and mail service between Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo. Elevated Marquis of Comillas by King of Spain Alfonso XII in 1878, López died in 1883. The company operated 33 vessels in 1893 and was eventually privatized in 1994.

Ivan Sache, 04 Apr 2008